Barber&#39;s and hair-dresser&#39;s shampco and hair-washing device



F. A. EDWARDS. BARBERS AND HAIRDRESSERS SHAMPOO AND HAIR WAS HlN G DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 19, I920.

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APPLICATION FILED MAR. 19. 1920.

Patented Nov. 30, 1920.

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.UNITED STATES PATIENT OFFICE.

FRANK A. EDWARDS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ARTHUR SPARROW, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 30, 1920.

Application filed March 19, 1920. Serial No. 367,165.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRANK A. EDWARDS a citizen of the United States, and a resident and directing the spray nozzle, and can use only one hand for massaging andotherw1se ,mampulatmg the scalp or hair ofthe cusof the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook 1 Joiner; and beside the embarrassment of and the State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Barbers and Hair-Dressers Shampoo and Hair ashing Devices, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

The purpose of this invention is to provide an improved device especially adapted for the use of barbers and hairdressers. It

consists in the elements and features of con-' struction shown and described as indi .ated in the claims.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan view of a water fixture of the nature of hand basin equipped with the device embodying this invention.

Fig. 2 is a section at the line, 22, on Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a section at the line, 3-3, on Fig. 2.

Fig. & is a section at the line, 4-4: on Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a section at the line, 5-5, 011 Fig. 3, showing the terminal quadrant pipe arm which carries the spray head turned to oblique position, as in dotted line in said Fig. 3.

Fig. 6 is an elevation of the upper portion of the telescopic standard of the device and its terminal parts adjusted to position for use.

The device shown in the drawings is designed especially for shampooingand hair washing in barber shops and ladies beauty parlors respectively, taking the place of the considerably inconvenient appliances now employed; which in the least inconvenient form consists usually of the spray device carried at the end of a flexible tube which at the other end is adapted to be coupled onto an erect discharge nozzle, with which the stand having the hand bowl is equipped in such poall times hasone hand occupied in holding having only one hand free for his work, the flexible tube connection of the spray head having a tendency to lop to one side or the other, interferes to some extent with the easy direction of the spray to the proper point.

Avoiding these deficiencies or" the present devices, the structure shown in the drawings comprises in its main elements, first, a telescopically extensible standard member adapted to be applied by direct thrust to and held firmly upon the erect nozzle of the stand; second, a horizontally-extending pipe member carried by the inner pipe member of the telescoping standard and swiveled about its own axis at its connection with said pipe member which in turn swivels about its axis in the standard; third, a quadrant pipe arm swiveled transversely to he horizontallyextending arm at the outer end, and adapted at its free end for carrying a spray head or other nozzle terminal.

The standard member is adapted to be applied directly to the lip-standing discharge.

nozzle of the stand. The pipe is provided with a considerably thick elastically-compressibleand thereby radially-shrink able-gasket, preferably of rubber, and means on the standard for compressing it to grip the standard onto the stand strongly enough to support the entire fixture almost as rigidly as it might be supported by a threaded metallic coupling. The extensibility of the telescoping standard adapts it to be adjusted to the convenience of the cus' tomer and the operator, and the detail construction of this standard is such as to prevent it from being extended by the water pressure. The three swiveled connections in the fitting between the standard and the quadrant terminal pipe having the spray head, makes the spray head substantially as free to be moved around the head of the customer by the operator and turned to discharge in any direction, as if it were connected by a perfectly flexible pipe throughout; and at the same time the connections at these several swivel joints are such as to make the swiveled. members thereat tight enough so that the fixture will holdits position against gravity and against the tendency of the water pressure to deflect it; so that the operator may adjust the spray nozzle at any desired position over the head of 'he operator while both his hands are'left "free to massage the customers scalp or manipulate the hair with comb or brush, or otherwise by hand, as the operation being performed may require.

The detail construction will now be described. A is the stand containing the hand bowl or basin l3, provided with hot and cold water pipes controlled by the valves, C and D, and both connected to the standard discharge nozzle, The outer pipe member, 1, of the standard is expanded its lower end as seen at l, and interiorly threaded, and exteriorly provided with hexagon wrench engagement, l and bacl: of the interior thread, it has an aunnar diaphragm, 19, forming an annular shoulder, 1 facing downward, on which there is preferably lodged a washer, 2, for intervening between said shoulders and the elastically-coni "es siblc an d redial ly-shrinhable rubber paplring whose depth in axial direction is very considerable for the purpose of afford in e capacity tor compression to result in the radial shrinkage by which it may ,2, sp tightly the stand nozzle, E.

is an exteriorly-threaded hollow plug or bushing interioipy counterbored to receive the pa: gasket, 5, and QXlZGllOllY threaded for engaging the interior thread of the standard terminal, 1, of the pipe member, 1, so that upon being screwed into the expanded end, oi the exterior pipe member, 1, said pli serves to axially compress and radi'= sh l: the gasket, 5, to cause it to grip tightly the nozzle, E. At the upper side the diaphragm, i is counterbored to term a second upwardly-facing shoulder, 1, upon which is seated the lower end of the intermediate pipe incmber, 2. Said pipe memher, 2, has above and back of its said lower end diaphragm, 2, blocking off its intcrior cavity, and immediately below said diaphragm a multiplicity of radial apert W. by which communication is at with the interspace, 2, between the outer pipe member, 1, and the intermediate pipe member, 2. Said interspace extends sulr stantially the entire interlapped length oi said members, i and Q, the interior member, 2, being seated its upper end on an interiorly-projectiug boss, 1 of the pipe, 1, which forms a shoulder blocking the upper end of said int pare. 2. From said interspace. :2, ther is communication through the apertures, '2, formed near the upper end of said member. 2, immediately below the interior boss and shoulder, i said apertures leading into the interspace, 3, between said intermediate pipe member, 2, and the central pipe member, 3. Said interspace, 3, is blocked at the upper end by a washer, 6,

iitted within the reduced upper end of the exterior member, 1, and lodged upon the upper end of the intermediate member, 2, and it-tine closely around the central member, space, 3, colmmunicates at its lower end w..;h the central bore of the her, 3, through apertures, 3", in the fitting, 3 by which the central member, 3, is terminated at its lower end, said fitting having an erior annular boss, 3, which ft: piston-wise in the bore of the inter; ate member, 2, and thereby blocks off tl e i :rspace, 3, at the lower end, compelling; tl "space :11 rior member, 2,

tures, 3 The fitting, 3, is open at it lower end, eilecting; connnunicatioi'i with the cavity 2- produced between the bottomed lower end of the intermediate fmemher, 2, and said blocking boss, 3, for the purpose and with the effect hereinafter referred to. The Con: munication through the central bore. of the central. lllQTTibGl', 3, is unobstructed. throughout the remainder of the device.

The operation of the structure of the telescoping standard as described is that the pressure admitted through the apertures, 3, into the space, 2", acts for upward thrust said member over the annular area equal the interior diameter of the intermediate ment to less the interior diameter ofthe pipe member, 3; and the pressure adto be through said aper- 112116; n ltted through the apertures, 2, acts in the opposite direction over the annular area of 2 interior diameter of the pipe member, 2, the exterior diameter oi the central her, 3. The difference between the two I sures, being the not pressure operating tor upward thrust of the central member, 2%, is measured by the annular cross-sectional ur a oi? the walls of the central member, 3;

-d this upwardly-acting pressure is resisted by the total friction of the parts sliding upon each other; which is adequate, and more than adequate at all ordinary watersupply pressures, to withstand said net upward pressure; so that there is no liability to upward thrust or extension of a telescoping; structure resulting from the water press1 while at the same time the user can readily extend or reduce the extension of said telescoping structure.

10 is an angle fitting rigidly secured at the upper end of the central pipe member, 3, on the standard. The limb, 10, of said angle fitting is exteriorly threaded and in teriorly bored and counterbored to form a shoulder, 10", on which the end of the hori zontal pipe member, 12, is stopped and seated for making a substantially liquid tight joint, provided said end is held against said seat. For so holding it there is secured onto the end of said pipe member, 12, which is inserted in the bored and counterbored limb, 10 a rigid collar, 12, of such length that its outer end is a little beyond the outer end of the threaded limb, 10 of the angle fitting, so that'the packing, 11, which is provided in the cavity of the stulling box coupling member, 11, screwed onto the threaded limb, 10, of theangle fitting, engages said outer end of the collar,said end constituting a shoulder,-for crowding the horizontal pipe member, 12, into the fitting to seat either the end of the pipe on the shoulder, 10, or the inner end of the collar, 12, on the shoulder, 10, which results from counter-boring the rigid limb,.10, to admit the collar, 12. By this means there is formed a securely liquid-tight joint which permits the swiveling action of the horizontal pipe member, 12, with respect to the angle fitting, 10. At the opposite or free end of the pipe member, 1.2, it has secured to it the angle pipe fitting, 13, having the exteriorly threaded and interiorlycounterbored limb 13 similarly substantially to the fitting, 10, for the purpose of connecting with said fitting, 13, a quadrant pipe member in substantially the same man- 1161 and with substantially the same capacity for swiveling, as described with respect to the connection of a pipe member, 12, with the fitting, 10. For the purpose of the joint at this point the stufiing box coupling member, 14L, is knurled at 1 1*, for manipulation by hand, whereas the stuffing box coupling member, 11,- is preferably formed for wrench engagement at the corresponding place, because it is desirable to have the joint at the fitting, 10, wlth the fitting, 12, tighter and less easy as to the swiveling action of the pipe, 12, therewlth, than is desirable with respect to the connection of the quadrant pipe member, 15, with the fitting, 13. The free end of the quadrant pipe member, 15, is adapted to i eceive any desired form of discharge nozzle, and for the specific purpose of the device, namely for sham 'iooing, hair washing, and the like, is a spray head, 16; It will be understood that the provision of the three swivel joints, namely, of the pipe member, 3, with respect to the remainder of the telescoping standard, of the pipe member, 12, with respect to the angle fitting, 10, and of the quardant member, 1 5, with respect to the angle fitting, 13, in view of the QO-degree turn of said quadrant pipe between .its swivel connection and the siray head at the opposite ends, tend to at apt the device for use in the manner described in its manipulation in the process of sham-- pooing or like operation.

By substituting a bubbling cup, 18, m Fig. 6 for the spray device, and turning the part to the position shown in said Fig. 6 so that the quadrant pipe member when turned upward presents a bubbling cup at the upper end, the device may be readily converted into a drinking fountain, the bubbling cup being swung over to position overhanging the hand bowl while the user manipulates the cold water faucet until the fixture is cool and the water so discharged at a suitable temperature for drinking, and then reversing the position to that shown in Fig. 6 for use as a bubbling cup from which the excess of water flows over into the bowl.

I claim 1. In a device for the purpose indicated, a'telescoping vstructure comprising an oddnumbered plurality of tubes, forming a like number of concentric passages, each intermediate or even-numbered passage having communication at its opposite ends respectively with the next interior and exterior passages, and being stopped off or blocked as to fluid flow beyond said communications respectively, each odd-numbered passage being also stopped off or blocked as to fluid flow beyond its communication with the next interior even-numbered passage.

2. In the construction defined in claim 1 foregoing, the blocking means of the outermost passage and of the next to the innermost passage at the outer and inner ends of said passages respectively, being rigid 'respectively with the outermost and innermost of said tubes; whereby the discharge pressure tends'to cause telescopic retraction'of said innermost tube with respect to the outermost. r

3. In the construction defined in claim 1 foregoing, the number of pipes being three and the intermediate pipe beingfixed with respect to the outermost, the blocking means of the intermediate passage beyond its communication with the central passage, being rigid with the central tube, and the other ,blocking means of said intermediate passage being stopped with respect to theoutermost tube and free with respect to the innermost.

In the construction defined in claim 1 foregoing, the number of tubes and concentric passages being three, the outer tube having an annular diaphragm restricting its inlet opening, the middle tube having its inner end closed and extended beyond said closure for stopping on said annular diaphragm, the said extension being apertured for liquid fiow from the inlet tube into the outer of the three concentric passages.

In the construction defined in claim 1 foregoing, means for attaching the device to a discharge pipe, consisting of a plug or bushing centrally apertured and counterbored and exteriorly threaded for screwing into the inlet end of the outer of said concentric tubes', and a compressible and contractible elastic packing sleeve occupying the counterbore of said nut, and stopped at one end on the counter-bore shoulder, said outermost tube having at its inlet end an an nuiar diaphragm restricting its aperture, and stopping the opposite end of said comaoie and contractible packing.

G. In a device of the character indicated, an inner tube member, a second tube member within which the first mentioned is telescopically mounted, the outer of the two tube members having one end closed, the inner one having at that end an exterior i'iange which fits piston-wise in the outer of said tubes and having apertured beyond said flange in the discharge direction away from said flange, the outer tube having liquid inlet apertures back of said blocking member, and an inclosing tube through which liquid under pressure may be admitted through both said apertures for discharge through the in nor tube; whereby the pressure operating between the flange and the annular blocking member, tending to resist telescopic extension of the device, is opposed by pressure at the opposite side of said flange between the same and the closed ends of the outer of said two tubes.

7. A device for the purpose indicated, comprising a plural-tubed telescopic upright member having near the lower end of the outer tube an interior annular shoulder; an elastically compressible and thereby radially-shrinkable packing ring lodged within said lower end and seating onsaid shoulder and protruding from said end and a centrally-apertured and counterbored plug or bushing screwed into said lower end of said tube.

8. A device for the purpose indicated, comprising an rip-standing telesoopically-ex tensible member adapted for securement of its lower end onto a discharge pipe; a horizontally-extending pipe arm swiveled about its horizontal axis to the upper end of the interiorly-telescoping memebr of the standard, and a substantially quadrant-band pipe arm swiveled transversely to the outer end of said horizontal pipe arm, and having its own outer end adapted to receive a terminal discharge device.

9. In the construction defined in claim 8 foregoing, a stuffing box at the upper end of the outer pipe member of the telescoping standard for closing the joint between the same and the inner telescoping member thereof, said stuffing box having an upward exteriorly-threaded extension above its wrench engagement, said extension being longitudinally slit to form fingers adapted to be closed together to grip the interior telescoping tube member, and a nut screwed onto said threaded and slit extension for clamping fingers onto the interior telescoping member for frictional resistance to its turning about its axis in the standard.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Chicago, Illinois, this 15th day March, 1920.

FRANK A. EDWARDS. 

